Reduce the time spent checking your friends’ blogs with RSS and Google Reader

I’ve made a post about Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in the past and alluded to it elsewhere, but I never really went into the details of the best way to adopt this very simple technology (no pun intended). In a nutshell RSS let’s subscribe to all your favorite blogs and websites and have all the posts and content show up in one easy to access place. I’ve got about 40 blogs and sites that I frequent, imagine how long it would take to go through and check everyday for new content; I sure don’t have that kind of time. That’s where RSS and Google Reader comes in.

I’m going to use Google Reader as a platform for this post but the post will still be helpful to those using a program that supports OPML. I’m a big fan of Gmail which led me to be a big fan of Google Reader. I’ve done all the work of compiling a list of feeds that includes all of our blogs and their comments; you get to reap the benefits. All you will have to do is create an account with Google (if you don’t have one) and then upload the XML file below.

Save this XML file to your computer by right-clicking and hitting “Save As…”

this definitely makes it easier to keep up with what’s happening. i had a pretty good setup of blogs listed in my reader but i didn’t know how to add the comment feeds in there so i was still having to go to everybody’s blog to check the comments. thanks man! this makes things easier.